Louis roman



(No Model.)

- L. HOMAN.

CANDLE MOLDING MACHINE. No. 397,918. Patented Feb. 19, 1-889.

FIGJZ- 531:: I. H u v i; M 4 a F w F I A F 1 a t 2 i W w 1 H J t A i I w 1\ I LOUIS HOMAN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO I'IO)1[A\ & CO, OF SAME PLACE.

CANDLE-MOLDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,918, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed August 31, 1888. Serial No. 284,232. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: freely into the mouths of the various molds, Be it known that I, LOUIS HOMAN, a citizen of which latter any suitable number may be of the'United States of America, residing at used. Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and The molds D, communicating with the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and trough O, are designed for the production of useful Improvements in Candle-Molding Mashort candles, and are provided with an inchines, of which the following is a specificate'rnal shoulder or other suitable stop, as seen tion, reference being had therein to the acat E in Fig. 2, said molds being traversed by companying drawings. hollow pistons l ,through which the wicks are to This invention relates to those machines passed. Each piston has a fixed collar or which comprise a box or chest inclosing a seother immovable bearing, G, near its lower ries of tubular candle-molds traversed by holend, and at the bottom of the piston a disk or low pistons attached to a common follower, head, 11, is secured. Those portions of the which latter is adapted to be raised and lowpistons included between the bearings G and I 5 cred as occasion requires; and my improveheads II are adapted to pass freely through ment consists in constructing these machines perforations I of the follower J, which is raised in such a manner as to enable them to proand lowered by racks and pinions in the cusduce candles of two or more diiferent lengths. tomary manner. I The upper end of each pis- To accomplish this result the molds for the ten has a conical socket, K, to impart the 20 short candles are provided with pistons capausual tapering tip to the candle. 7o ble of being arrested at a certain level, the The molds L, communicating with the lower ends of the pistons being passed through trough C, being for the production of long holes in the follower, in order that the latter candles, are somewhat largerin diameter than may have a regular predetermined stroke the other molds, D, but are destitute of stops, without actuating said pistons; but the pisthe pistons M of said molds L being secured tons for the long candle-molds are securely to the follower by disks or heads N, fastened fastened to the follower, so as to travel uniunder a grooved keeper, O. Furthermore, formly therewith, thus causing the long caneach of the pistons has a conical socket at its dles to emerge from the upper ends of said upper end, one of said sockets being seen at 0 molds the instant said follower is elevated. P in Fig. 2. \Vhen the machine is in its nor- A still further ascent of the follower causes mal position, the follower J lowered, as seen it to come in contact with certain bearings of in Fig. 1, thereby bringing the conical sockthe pistons of the short-candlemolds, thereby ets I of pistons M down to the bottom of ejecting the short candles from said molds, as molds L, but permitting the sockets K of the 3 5 hereinafter more fully described. other pistons, F, to rest upon the stops E. The

In the annexed drawings, Figure-l is a transwicks from the various bobbins are then passed verse section of the upper portion of a candleup through the respective pistons and molds, molding machine embodying my invention, and secured at the top of the machine in the the follower being lowered. Fig: 2 is an enusual manner, after which preparation the 0 larged axial section of a pair of the molds of melted tallow or other stock is poured into the said machine, the follower-being elevated and troughs C O and runs down into said molds about to come in contact with the bearing of until arrested by the conical sockets K P, the short-candle piston, and the central porthereby forming the candles. The surplus tions of both pistons being broken away. stock is speedily cut away from the troughs 45 A represents the upper part of the frame of C C after being sufiiciently cooled and hardan ordinary candle-molding machine, and B ened, so as to leave each candle at liberty to is a box or chest supported thereon, said chest be raised out of the molds, which is readily being covered with a cap having a pair of effected by elevating the follower J. The inhorizontaltroughs, O O,into which the melted stant this follower begins to ascend, the can- 50 tallow or other stock is poured, so as to run dies commence to emerge from the molds L,

the longanr'lshort candles from their resljn'rct- I. As they emerge the molded can- 1 ivo molds. (lies are lllidivered into racks and elamtmd therein bel'ore being taken away from the machine lroparatory lo makingasecond run,':

which is arcomplishod, as above described, ali'ter lowl'n-ing' the follower. are retrtwtod the moment the lolll'nrer begins its descent; but said. follower must descend i still fartlll'rr and strike the heads ll bot'oro 1 the other pistons, l will be actuated.

From this description it is evident that by i The pistons M j liyproviclirlg thcbox 13 with ninety-six molds each run of stock will produce fortyeight short candles and an equal number of 3 long eanlflles, and as these various sizes are effect a great saving in small'faetories.

'I' claim as my invention The combination, in a candle-molding Ina-- chine, of chest 1;, provided with two sets of molds, l) i traversed, res mctively, by pistons l h K and M l, the pistons M P being connected 1 to the tldlower J, so as to travel. therewith, E and the pistons 15- K being passed loosely tlnough holes I in said follower, and being 1 provided with bearings G and heads H, and stops, as E, being arranged within the shortcandle molds .l), for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence ol' two witnesses.

properly arranging the stops E and collars G the length ol the short candles will be regulated accordingly, and in some machines the molds and pistons ma be so constructed as to produce three or more candles of various lengths.

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molded in asingle machine the invention will. 

